Ray Mend Eat - A Bright Life Inspired by Dr. Raymond Peat

Me

January 29, 2024

About me, well I feel like a teenager. I feel better at sixty than I did at twenty! I owe my good health to Ray Peat. I am 5’4 and...

What Ray Said...

"Excessive citric acid, for example might activate dormant cancer cells and has been associated with malignancy" -Ray Peat @raymendeat

Citric Acid & Cancer

"Brain tissue is very rich in complex forms of fats. The experiment (around 1978) in which pregnant mice were given diets containing either coconut oil or unsaturated oil showed that brain development was superior in the young mice whose mothers ate coconut oil." Ray Peat

Pregnant Mothers Creating Bigger Brained Children

"When a person uses a drug there is generally an awareness that the benefit has to be weighed against the side effects, but things treated as a nutrient especially an essential nutrient has an implication that it wont produce undesirable side effects. -Ray Peat

Slippery Slope Supplements

"In white hair the amount of tryptophan is higher than in hair any other color Although serotonin and tryptophan are very important during rapid growth their presence in senile tissues is probably closely associated with the processes decline." Ray Peat

Tryptophan & Gray Hair

"Opiates are still commonly used for pain relief in cancer patients, despite the evidence that has accumulated for several decades indicating that they promote inflammation and cancer growth, while suppressing immunity and causing tissue catabolism, exacerbating the wasting that commonly occurs with cancer. Their use, rather than alternatives such as procaine, aspirin, and progesterone, is nothing but a medical fetish. -Ray Peat

Opiates Promote Cancer Growth

My email to Dr. Ray Peat: "Do you think eggs are a good or bad food for someone with cancer to eat?" "It depends on the quantity: cancer grows well when fat or protein is available as an energy source

Cancer & Protein

"Darkness suppresses mitochondrial function, and light activates it." -Ray Peat

Darkness & Light

"STRESS EARLY IN LIFE, SUCH AS ISOLATION, REDUCES THE PLAYFULNESS OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS. PLAYFULNESS IS CONTAGIOUS, BUT SO IS THE INABILITY TO PLAY." -RAY PEAT

Stress, Isolation & Playfulness

"To better understand the nature of the diseases that are now becoming VILLE so common, we can look "at them in a series, from the bowel, to the liver, to the immune system, and to the brain and hormones. -Ray Peat.

From Gut health to Hormones

Disorder of Energy Metabolism

MY EMAIL TO RAY PEAT. MY FATHER'S GIRLFRIEND BROKE HER HIP A MONTH AGO AND HAS BEEN BED RIDDEN SINCE. SHE HAS NOW TEXTED ME THAT SHE IS EXPERIENCING NUMB FEET AND IS ASKING ME IF "400MG TWICE A DAY OF MAGNESIUM MIGHT HELP WITH THE NUMBNESS INCLUDING MY FINGER". WHAT COULD I SUGGEST TO HER? RAW FARM CREAM TOP - WHOLE RAW MILK FROM GRASS - GRAZED CONS VUVE A - SAV TEST "MAGNESIUM SUPPLEMENTS ARE USUALLY IRRITATING TO THE INTESTINE: MILK PROVIDES BOTH MAGNESIUM AND CALCIUM IN A SAFE WAY. INCREASING HER BLOODSUGAR HELPS WITH PAIN AND MIGHT HELP NUMBNESS TOO. IS SHE USING DRUGS FOR THE PAIN? CONCORD GRAPE JUICE, ALTERNATING WITH MILK. HELPS TO INCREASE BLOOD GLUCOSE AND DECREASE INFLAMMATION AND PAIN. -RAY

Milk, Grape Juice, and Pain

"For others, things that aren't easily explained have special interest, and cause them to ask new questions. New perspectives can lead to new possibilities and new realities. -Ray Peat

New Questions, New Realities

" In 1956, Hardin Jones wrote "If one has cancer and opts to do nothing at all, he will live longer and feel better than if he undergoes radiation, chemotherapy or surgery, other than when used in immediate life-threatening situations.' " In the 1990s, a group of cancer specialists were asked what they would do if they were diagnosed with prostate cancer, and most of them said they would do nothing." -Ray Peat

Prostate Cancer Specialist’s Answers

"Feeding animals a normal diet with the addition of Coca-Cola, or US, T2, MA, NY with a similar • HI, IA, OR 10€, HI 109, CAVI amount of sucrose. has been found to mexican cola Let them increase their 12112 3552 calorie intake O by 50% contains caffeit 30mg per boftle made in Ve leine root ween to at worthy or sit s without increasino their weight gains, -Ray Peat

Coke without Weight Gain

ME: "Good morning Dr. Peat! I see a lot of studies demonizing sugar, but in the studies they use high fructose corn sugar, is that a fair study?" RP: "No, only demons *would claim such things to be scientific. The people who do those experiments are participating' in; effectively, a big cultural t conspiracy. Looking at the history of nutrition research, the demonization of cholesterol and sugar: began under the influence of industries and government with ulterior motives.

Demons & Corn Syrup Studies

"Drinking plain water can cause an extreme rise in blood pressure, especially in old people, and eating a meal (containing carbohydrate) lowers blood pressure." -Ray Peat

Old People, Blood Pressure, & Water

Prolonged Bedrest

"HARRY RUBIN GAVE A LECTURE THAT CRITICIZED THE CANCER ESTABLISHMENT'S CLAIM THAT IT WAS CURING CANCER. HE CITED A STUDY BY A PATHOLOGIST WHO HAD LOOKED FOR CANCER IN THE TISSUES OF PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN KILLED IN ACCIDENTS. HE FOUND IDENTIFIABLE CANCERS IN THE TISSUES OF EVERYONE OVER THE AGE OF FIFTY THAT HE EXAMINED. IF EVERYONE OVER 50 HAS HISTOLOGICALLY DETECTABLE CANCER. THEN THE USE OF BIOPSY SPECIMENS AS THE BASIS EOR DETERMINING WHETHER A PERSON NEEDS TREATMENT HAS NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS." -RAY PEAT

Over Fifty with Detectable Cancer

"IN ONE STUDY (3000 PEOPLE, 4 YEARS), THERE WAS A CLEAR INCREASE IN MORTALITY IN THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ATE LESS SALT. AN EXTRA FEW GRAMS OF SALT PER DAY WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A 36% REDUCTION IN "CORONARY EVENTS" (ALDERMAN, ET AL., 1995). ANOTHER STUDY (MORE THAN 11,000 PEOPLE, 22 YEARS) ALSO SHOWED AN INVERSE RELATION BETWEEN SALT INTAKE AND MORTALITY (ALDERMAN, ET AL., 1997)." @raymendeat -RAY PEAT-

Salt & Mortality

"Doctrines are admitted into the "scientific canon" by those who have the power of censorship. In astronomy, Halton Arp's discovery of anomalous" galactic red shifts is practically unknown, because the journal editors say the observations are "just anomalies," or that the theories which could explain them are unconventional; but the actual problem is that they are strong evidence against The Big Bang, Hubble's Law, and the Expanding Universe. American science since the 1940s, has probably been the most censored and doctrinaire in the world." Ray Peat

Censorship in American Science

MY E-MAIL EXCHANGE WITH DR RAY PEAT. "DO YOUT MINK 40 TO 50 TOO NUENPECTEL HavING GELATIN NONFAT MILK AND PO' Ito CoOD SOURCES O PROTEIN TO EAT WIT CANCER?" RAY PEAT: "IF THE PROTEIN IS LIMITED TO THOSE, AND YOUR OTHER CALORIES ARE FROM CARBOHYDRATES (NOT FATS) THAT AMOUND SHOULD BE SAFE.”

How Much Protein for Cancer

"Even with such mild restraint in the use of diagnostic -rays, Cofman's well founded estimate is that 250,000 deaths caused by radiation could be prevented annually. I believe many more deaths would be prevented if ultrasound and MRI were used consistently instead of x-rays. Using Cofman's estimate, I think we can blame at least ten million deaths on just the medical x-rays that have been used inappropriately because of the policies of the U.S. government in the last half century. That wouldn't include the deaths caused, by radioactive fallout from bomb tests and leaks from nuclear power plants, or the vast numbers of people mentally impaired by all sorts of toxic radiation." -Ray Peat

X-Rays & Ten Million Deaths

"I think people shouldn't eat things that damage them and should eat things that taste good and that provide the essential nutrients, while making them feel good and function well; is that a diet? -Ray Peat

This is a Diet?

AN EMAIL EXCHANGE BETWEEN RAY PEAT AND MYSELF ME: GOOD MORNING DR. PEATE KNOW THAT YOU DO NOT RECOMMENDED SUPPLEMENTAL VITAMIN C BECAUSE OF PURITY ISSUES, WOULDAN ORGANIC ROSEHIPSTEA BE ABETTER OPTION BETWEEN THE TWO? RAY Peat: "MOST PEOPLE GET ENOUGH VITAMIN C WITHOUT SUPPLEMENTS ME I ONLY HAVE FRUIT ABOUT EVERY OTHER DAY SO WOULD I BE GETTING ENOUGH VITAMIN C FROM DAIRY, SEAFOOD, MEAT AND EGGS? I THOUGHT THE ROSEHIPS COULD BE AN EMERGENCY VITAMIN C SOURCE? RAY PEAT "THOSE FOODS (VEGETABLES, TOO) PROVIDE ADEQUATE VITAMIN CI ME DOESN'T WELL COOKED VEGETABLES LIKE BROCCOLI KILL VITAMIN C? RAY PEAT: "BROCCOLI, KALE, ETC., ARE VERY RICH IN VITAMIN C SOME GOES INTO THE WATER, WHICH SHOULD BE USED."

We Get Enough Vitamin C

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